Summers are when you look forward to shedding the layers. But imagine donning a jacket to cool off. An MIT alumnus has created an ultra lightweight jacket that can be worn in temperatures ranging from -30 degree Celsius to 50 degree Celsius, while maintaining the body temperature between 18 and 40 degree Celsius.
Kranthi Kiran Vistakula's 'heat exchange' technology called ClimaCon has won him the Innovator of the Year honor from Technology Review India.
"While pursuing my Masters at MIT, I found the process of putting on and off additional layers of clothing in winter very cumbersome. To overcome this, I started working on developing jacket with the capacity to both heat and cool.
"I put the Peltier effect into application for achieving this," says Vistakula.
The Peltier effect is a phenomena discovered in 1834 by JCA Peltier, who found that at the junction of two dissimilar metals carrying a small current the temperature rises or falls, depending upon the direction of the current."... After three years of effort and experimentation, the weight of the jacket now is 650 grams, almost equivalent to the weight of a regular pair of jeans," Vistakula says proudly.
Source: Press Trust of India
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